American League Central Division Notes

Baseball’s American League Central Division is the only one of the 14 divisions in major league baseball and the NFL to have a complete set of teams that has won its league’s World Series or Super Bowl.

It houses the current world champion, Kansas City Royals, who last year won their second World Series, 30 years after winning their first.

The Chicago White Sox endured an 88 year World Series title drought before winning it all in 2005.

Now it has been almost 32 years since the Detroit Tigers won it all. They did so in 1984 just before Ronald Reagan was returned to the White House in a landslide victory over Walter Mondale.

This year a 5th President, since 1984, will be elected and the odds are long that the Tigers will have won the title. Yet that is why they play the games.

It has been 25 years since the Minnesota Twins won the title in 1991 while only the Chicago Cubs (108 years) and the Arizona Cardinals (69 years) have gone longer sans a world title than the Cleveland Indians, who last won it all in 1948.